HIFA in the time of Xenophobia
The sky is just catching its first glimpses of daylight when I hand the cab driver most of the US dollar notes I have left. The notes are a stained, worn and flimsy mess that I am glad to be rid of. I...
View ArticleConfessions of three humanitarians
There are days we’d sacrifice our colleagues/morals/integrity to avoid trawling through BS on the Internet. But we couldn’t avoid comment on an article called “Confessions of a humanitarian” that The...
View ArticleDo our passports continue to be punished for being African?
Late last week, I was informed that I would not be able to travel to Dubai for an important meeting scheduled months ago. Like other countries across the globe, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) halted...
View ArticleRefugees vow to ‘return home’ after meeting with ‘appalling’ British...
This piece is a response to a recent article in the Daily Mail. Among the Syrian and Afghan refugees landed on the Greek island of Kos there has been talk of returning to their home-countries after...
View ArticleA meditation on that space I need for my rage, or, an independence manifesto
The space I need for my rage was taken from me long ago. I have spent the better part of my adult life recognizing both its social and personal absence with fierce determination to carve it out as I...
View ArticleWhy is Facebook asking me how to pronounce my name?
I love meeting people. When it comes time to say my name, I pronounce it slower and louder than my normal speech, with a punch of pride to sweeten the moment. Sometimes, people repeat it back for me,...
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The Westville Buy, Swap and Sell(-ing of a domestic worker online)
I generally have the expectation that every so often something racist and problematic from South Africa will show up in my Facebook feed. But even when I think I’m ready, it’s impossible to ever be...
View ArticleLagos, the city of divides
Lagos, is the only city in Nigeria worthy of being described as a human potpourri. No crevice of the city is left unaffected by the flavour brought by the multifarious peoples who comprise the city’s...
View ArticleWhy Obama blundered by speaking out on LGBTQ rights in Kenya
Ahead of President Obama’s much-awaited visit to Kenya a storm started brewing over LGBTQ rights in that country. The President went to Kenya fresh off the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on...
View Article“Oh, don’t try me”: On style and salt and Serena Williams’s utterly...
This past summer I thought, again and again, about the rare range of things Serena Williams communicates on the tennis court. Never before has an athlete, or just about any other kind of performer,...
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